Industrialize Me
Scramble for Africa
East meets West
The Great War
Here we go Again (WWII)
200
This rapid 19th-century process changed society by moving production out of small home workshops and into massive buildings with centralized machinery
Industrrialization
200
To prevent European nations from going to war with each other over colonies, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck hosted this diplomatic meeting.
The Berlin Conference
200
This anti-imperialist group in China targeted foreign railroads and Christian missionaries because they believed Western culture was ruining their country
Boxers (Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists)
200
On the home front during WWI, governments used rationing, the military draft, and this highly biased media to influence public opinion and sustain the war effort.
Propaganda
200
This major US stock market event in October 1929 triggered a global financial domino effect that brought down European economies.
The Great Depression
400
This term describes the new, wealthy class of corporate leaders and factory owners that emerged as the dominant social group under capitalism.
Bourgeoise (midle class, business owners)
400
King Leopold II of Belgium became infamous for using extreme violence and forced labor to extract this highly demanded raw material from the Congo.
What is rubber
400
Because the British forced Indian agriculture to focus entirely on cash crops like cotton rather than food, India suffered from these severe, widespread deadly events (also happening in Ireland).
Famine
400
Because new weapons favored defense over offense, WWI soldiers on the Western Front lived in subterranean networks separated by a deadly stretch of land known as this.
No Man's Land
400
This totalitarian ideology, which relies on extreme nationalism, military power, and the suppression of all political opposition, first rose to power in interwar Italy.
Fascism
600
These men were responsible for the communist Manifesto
Marx and Engels
600
While France often ruled its colonies directly by forcing people to assimilate, Great Britain relied on this policy of using pre-existing local structures to govern.
Indirect Rule
600
When European empires withdrew from Africa and Asia, their unnatural colonial borders frequently trapped rival ethnic groups together, leading to this long-term issue.
civil war
600
This weapon, capable of firing over 600 rounds per minute, pinned armies down and directly led to the development of trench warfare.
machine gun (maxim gun)
600
Hitler gained massive support by blaming Germany's economic struggles using the Dolchstoßlegende on Jewish people, communists, and the politicians who signed this 1919 treaty.
Treaty of Versailles
800
During the late 1800s, Japan radically transformed its economy by replacing the feudal rule of the samurai with this modern, industrial political system.
The Meiji Restoration
800
At the Battle of Adwa, King Menelik II successfully defended his nation's independence by crushing an invasion from this European country
Italy
800
This animal-fat rumor concerning rifle cartridges was the final straw that caused native Indian soldiers to turn on their British East India Company officers in 1857 during THIS rebellion.
Sepoy
800
This specific clause in the Treaty of Versailles forced a humiliated Germany to accept absolute guilt for starting the war.
War Guilt Clause
800
The League of Nations showed total weakness in 1931 when it failed to stop this expansionist Asian military from carving out a puppet state in northern China.
Japan
1000
This breakthrough in medicine allowed European imperialists to survive malaria while exploring tropical regions of Africa and Asia. (also found in tonic water)
quinine
1000
This famous poem by Rudyard Kipling came to symbolize the racist attitude that Europeans had a moral obligation to "civilize" non-Western people.
White man's burden
1000
This drug, illegally smuggled into China by British merchants, was used to force open the doors of the Chinese market to Western trade.
Opium
1000
Because Germany could not afford to pay its massive post-war reparations, its government printed too much money, causing this economic disaster.
hyperinflation
1000
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain infamously declared "peace for our time" after using this strategy at the Munich Conference, giving parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
Appeasement